The French Revolution and the British Novel in the Romantic Period (Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature)

This book is a major reassessment of the French Revolution s impact on the English novel of the Romantic period. Focusing particularly but by no means exclusively on women writers of the time, it explores the enthusiasm, wariness, or hostility with which the Revolution was interpreted and represented for then-contemporary readers. A team of international scholars study how English Romantic novelists sought to guide the British response to an event that seemed likely to turn the world upside down.